Toy Town Hall is a 1936 Merrie Melodies short directed by I. Freleng.
Plot[]
A young tot is put to bed in the middle of listening to the Ben Bernie Orchestra on the radio. He falls asleep and dreams that his toys in the room become movie and radio stars who put on a variety show, with a bunch of musical acts. Then the youngster wakes up.
Caricatures[]
- Ben Bernie
- Fred Allen - parodying his Toytown Tonight radio show
- Portland Hoffa - interrupting Fred
- Bing Crosby - singing "Let It Be Me"
- Eddie Cantor - singing "Merrily We Roll Along"
- David Rubinoff - playing violin
- Rudy Vallée
- Joe Penner - impression by stuffed rabbit
Availability[]
(1997) LaserDisc
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 5, Side 6, Objects D'art (1995 dubbed version)
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 5, Side 6, Objects D'art (1995 dubbed version)
Streaming[]
Warner Bros. Discovery RIDE (2021 - 2023) (restored)
Notes[]
- This is the first Merrie Melodies cartoon in which Carl Stalling gets musical credit onscreen.
- This is the final Merrie Melodies cartoon to use "I Think You're Ducky" as its theme music. The next Merrie Melodies cartoon, "Boulevardier from the Bronx", would be the first to use "Merrily We Roll Along" as its theme music.
- This is the final cartoon to use the original 1936 Merrie Melodies Color Rings in the intro.
- This cartoon is one of the few that has been known to have aired on Cartoon Network with the Associated Artists Productions logo before the opening titles. However, a Turner "dubbed version", minus the AAP opening, has been aired on the network from time to time.
- This is the first cartoon to overlay the opening credits over first scene of the cartoon before fading away, which is in contrast to previous cartoons where the opening credits remain static on a fixed title card.
- The restored print on Warner Bros. Discovery RIDE automatically fades the title card to the radio background, whereas the original print fades the title card onto the ring backgrounds then to the radio background. It also has a fake cutaway from the end of the cartoon to the closing titles, and incorrectly uses the "I Think You're Ducky" opening rendition from "I'd Love to Take Orders from You" and "At Your Service Madame" in place of the original one. This restoration also heavily Photoshops the opening and ending bullet style sequences.
- The short reuses both vocal and animation from multiple past "Merrie Melodies", including "Those Beautiful Dames" (the elephant toy and the trumpeting toy soldiers), "The Merry Old Soul" (the trio of violinists), "Beauty and the Beast" (the march of the toy soldiers), "Billboard Frolics" (Eddie Cantor), "The Lady in Red" (the Rudy Vallée sequence and the dancer, now a Spanish girl instead of a roach), "My Green Fedora" (the dancing rabbit in the coat and fedora) and "Let It Be Me" (the Bing Crosby crooner bird).
- Due to the majority of the recycled animation from this cartoon being originally animated in inferior two-hue color processes such as Cinecolor and two-strip Technicolor, with the exception of the recycled animation from Let It Be Me which came out earlier that same year, all of these recycled animation in question are re-animated in the three-strip Technicolor color process.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries
- ↑ (3 October 2022) Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 (in en). BearManor Media, page 45.